Quote by Jane Austen
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies

With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen

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The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for. – Jane Austen

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Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything. – Jane Austen

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Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast. – Jane Austen

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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. – Minna Antrim

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Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished — that of man also. – Simone de Beauvoir

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I declare to you that woman must not depend upon the protection of man, but must be taught to protect herself, and there I take my stand. – Susan B. Anthony

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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it. – Bella Abzug

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